This work, considered an autobiography, is a document in which the author questions his entire life. It was written, as a reaction against his closest relatives who prevented the publication of Ecce Homo, because its content scared his mother and sister Elisabeth, a horror that would dissipate, eight years after the death of its author, when Elisabeth relented. the work in exchange for large sums for its publishing rights.

My sister and I waited several years to see the light, because it could not be published while some of the main people quoted there lived. But when it was published (1951), it unleashed hatred, scandal and fierce controversy, even denying the authenticity of its pages, but there were those who admired it, considering it the most authentic and brilliant thing written by him. With this work Nietzsche was once again the subject of controversy as it was during his lifetime, a product of human misunderstanding, an understandable phenomenon if one considers that reading Nietzsche implies entering a labyrinth.

When he finished writing it, Nietzsche was confined in Iena, a psychiatric hospital, and so that he would not suffer the same fate as Ecce Homo, he gave it to another patient who would be discharged, so that the book would evade his sister's surveillance and reach to the readers. In this confinement, consumed by syphilis, overwhelmed by the surveillance of his sister and his mother, he found the stage to create this autobiography or novel, a hospice for an individual misunderstood and evicted by his contemporaries. Here Friedrich maintains the temper of the rest of his work, a rebel against the universe who never regrets it, and his only frustration is having mistaken the procedures to finish off his greatest opponent, God.

It is a work that shows the true caliber of this genius, its greatness and its defeat, it describes the life of Nietzsche, the life of that individual who got fed up with the conventions of humanity, proclaimed the death of God and demolished philosophy with a hammer. or aphorisms.